From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9304 invoked by alias); 3 Oct 2010 02:54:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 9265 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Oct 2010 02:54:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-98-110-186-10.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (98.110.186.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:54:07 +0000 Received: from ednor.cgf.cx (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFB913C061 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:54:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor.cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id D4B242B352; Sat, 2 Oct 2010 22:54:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 02:54:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: git and openssh issue (eblake?) Message-ID: <20101003025405.GA18616@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4C45D041.8010209@kitware.com> <4C4677CA.2090608@bopp.net> <4C485D3D.7070307@kitware.com> <4C4862F6.7090602@bopp.net> <4C48A06F.6020309@kitware.com> <4C48C9B3.60602@bopp.net> <4C48EE1A.1040705@kitware.com> <4C49BD97.6080103@bopp.net> <20100723162754.GA8455@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100723162754.GA8455@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-10/txt/msg00044.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:27:55PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 11:04:39AM -0500, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>On 7/22/2010 8:19 PM, Bill Hoffman wrote: >>> On 7/22/2010 6:44 PM, Jeremy Bopp wrote: >>> >>> It is not that unreproducible... It fails maybe 5 out of 6 tries. If >>> you can get it to work 10 out of 10 times then I would say you don't >>> have the problem. >> >>I'm actually able to reproduce this early EOF error during cloning 100% >>under the following scenario: >> >>$ cd /tmp >>$ git clone --bare git://cmake.org/cmake.git >>$ git clone localhost:/tmp/cmake.git cmake-test >> >>This is all under Cygwin using all binary mounts on Windows XP SP 3. >>Cygwin, ssh, and git are all updated to current versions: >> >>Cygwin Package Information >>Package Version Status >>cygwin 1.7.5-1 OK >>git 1.7.1-1 OK >>openssh 5.5p1-2 OK >> >>I haven't tried the other configurations I mentioned yet, but if there >>is someone who has the ability to debug this in more depth, this looks >>like a quick and readily reproducible test case. > >I checked this out and it looks like something in git is overflowing >and scriblling on the stack. I was hoping that it would be a cygwin >problem which I could fix (and I wouldn't be surprised if it eventually >turned out to be) but I didn't see much evidence of the DLL causing this >problem. It looks like it is git itself doing something wrong. I've done some more testing this weekend and I'm coming to a different conclusion. I don't see git being implicated. It really does seem to be a Cygwin problem after all. My current theory is that it's related to Cygwin's pipe code. Still investigating... cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple